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27" iMac...
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Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
Ordered my 27" iMac yesterday, this is what I went for
3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive
AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB GDDR5
Magic Trackpad
Apple Wireless Keyboard (British) & User's Guide (English)
HP Photosmart 5510 e-All-in-One AirPrint Printer
Great spec. Welcome to the i7 club.
My 27" iMac arrived today but I won't have time to set it up until tomorrow evening :dapprove:
jenic
ClioSport Club Member
Open box - place on desk - carefully remove screen protector - plug in
What's to set up? Get it open!
At the moment I've got a corner desk with a 21" monitor and a 32" LCD TV at right angles. There isn't really enough room just moving the monitor so I'll need to wall mount the TV lol. That was a job I was planning to do this weekend with not expecting the iMac until Monday.
N0ddie
ClioSport Club Member
Tesla Model 3
N0ddie
ClioSport Club Member
Tesla Model 3
Just installed Parallells Desktop, Windows 7 & Microsoft Office for Mac on mine
Sucks having to use Windows, but I need it for work
Is it not more beneficial to run Windows through bootcamp as opposed to parallels?
E36 328
Isn't that one or the other though? You have to boot up into windows or os x?
I got parallels on my MacBook last night, only got it yesterday, seems to work well.
N0ddie
ClioSport Club Member
Tesla Model 3
Yup. But through bootcamp Windows is opened up to use more of your computers hardware better.
Spose Parallels will do for most as long as you aint trying anything to heavy.
Anyone run windows in bootcamp and use it to do occasional gaming on PC titles? If so is it any good (I'm not comparing to gaming rigs before anyone brings them up) for relatively recent titles on average settings? I fully expect it to be unable to run new games at high settings, just want to know if it's worth the hassle of dividing the HDD and buying windows for or utterly unusable.
N0ddie
ClioSport Club Member
Tesla Model 3
Looking at a few of the comments on MacRumours people are able to run todays new games on relatively good settings. Spose it depends on what options you picked (1GB or 2Gb graphics etc) but people have definately said that they managed it.
Mine's as below
27inch model
3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive
AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB GDDR5
Magic Trackpad
So aside from ram and HDD I ticked the other boxes on the spec. Just interested to hear if anyone on here has had a dabble and what their experience was like.
27inch model
3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive
AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB GDDR5
Magic Trackpad
So aside from ram and HDD I ticked the other boxes on the spec. Just interested to hear if anyone on here has had a dabble and what their experience was like.
N0ddie
ClioSport Club Member
Tesla Model 3
If you see the 64bit version going for a good price let me know eh.
Couple of pictures of my setup
I'm going to wall mount the TV in a couple of weeks. Concentrating on getting my music etc transferred across first as its a bit of a jumbled mess.
Before
After
I'm going to wall mount the TV in a couple of weeks. Concentrating on getting my music etc transferred across first as its a bit of a jumbled mess.
Before
After
N0ddie
ClioSport Club Member
Tesla Model 3
Looks good N0ddie, mine isn't like that...
Xbox 360 is on the top shelf with Sky box, Bluray player and Xbox HD DVD player. Then I've got my new HP 5510 Airprinter on the bottom shelf.
Closer look. I need to sort out all the wires LOL (some are for the old monitor and tower)
Xbox 360 is on the top shelf with Sky box, Bluray player and Xbox HD DVD player. Then I've got my new HP 5510 Airprinter on the bottom shelf.
Closer look. I need to sort out all the wires LOL (some are for the old monitor and tower)
N0ddie
ClioSport Club Member
Tesla Model 3
Looks good N0ddie, mine isn't like that...
Xbox 360 is on the top shelf with Sky box, Bluray player and Xbox HD DVD player. Then I've got my new HP 5510 Airprinter on the bottom shelf.
Closer look. I need to sort out all the wires LOL (some are for the old monitor and tower)
Ah! The stealth look lol.
I find that regardless of how much time I spend tidying wires it always looks a mess lol.
Had a weird episode tonight, switched the machine on and rather than just the circling loading icon I had an additional progress bar on the grey screen prior to the password box appearing. Once logged in I couldn't connect to wifi, even checked the setting and it had my router saved ok and a quick check on the phone after resetting the router showed the issue was with the mac only. Rebooted the machine fully and all was ok again. Anyone else had any odd things like this happen?
Grey screen with additional progress bar is a firmware update.
LOL it will be smarted up soon.
Own up... who was in Starbucks this morning?
http://twitter.com/#!/GeorgeGliddon/status/160317131781718017/photo/1
http://twitter.com/#!/GeorgeGliddon/status/160317131781718017/photo/1
N0ddie
ClioSport Club Member
Tesla Model 3
